Letter-bag attachment.



A. J. SMITH. LETTER BAG ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1914.

Patented June 9, 1914.

WITNESSES INVEAZOR v.14. J J;77/y 6f W &

ATTORNEY WED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADONIBAM 3'. SMITH, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

LETTER-BAG ATTACHIVIENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ADONIRAM J. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State oi Washington, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Letter-Bag Attachments,of which the following is a speci- .iication.

This invention relates to means for at taching packages of mail matterto lettercarriers bags; and has for its object to provide a novel devicewhich may be conven iently applied or removed from a letter'bag and whenin position will afford a reliable support for articles upon the outsideof the bag and obviate the necessity of encumbering the bag receptacleswith packages or bundles of mail matter.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of theimproved package support shown applied to a letter-carriers bag; andFig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken substantially through 22 of Fig.1.

The letter-bag, as shown in Fig. 1, is or may be of the ordinary formand, as shown, is constructed with a front wall 5, a rear wall 6, agore-piece 7 at each end, and a flap 8 connected to the rear wall andutilized as a cover for the mouth in wet or rainy weather. At each sideis a reinforcing strap 9 connecting the front and back walls. 10represents a partition to divide the bag into two compartments 11 and 12which are usually employed as receptacles for mail received and maildelivered in the carriers route.

According to the present invention, I provide a hanger 13 constituted ofa piece of wire having a horizontal portion 14 which is formed to thecurve of the bags front wall 5. Centrally of its length the wire isformed with a loop 15 to receive the eye 16 of a suspending hook 17 andat its ends the wire is bent upwardly, as at 18, and formed intosuspending hooks 19. Said hooks are designed to engage over the top ofthe bagwall 5 and terminate in forwardly directed.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 15, 1914.

Patented June 9, 1914-.

Serial No. 812,177.

ends 20 which extend through holes 5 provided in the bag-wall, as bestshown in Fig. 2. By such devices, the hanger is support ed upon the bagsfront wall and is secured thereto against accidental displacement bv thehook extremities 20 engaging in the holes 5 To remove the hanger, thehook portions, as 17 to the rear of the referred to wall, are sprungrearwardly to disengage the hooks from the wall, whereupon the hangermay be raised clear of the bag. Fastencd to the hanger-part between thesuspending hooks therefor is a plurality of hooks 21 to which packagesmay be attached, as indicated by dotted lines A in Fig. 1. The hooks 21are desirably made of spring wire and are connected with the hanger byeyes 22 formed on the hooks so that the same will not be detachable butshittable sidewise along the hanger-part 14:.

Supplemental to the aforedescribed parts, hooks 23 are desirablyconnected to the straps 9, and to prevent the hooks from undue vibratoryor swinging movements, tiechains such as 241 connect the same with loops25 provided in the adjacent ends of the hanger.

In practice, it is found advantageous to hang the heavier or more bulkypackages from the hooks 23 at the bag ends.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the bag attachment for carryingmail matter is inexpensive to manufacture. is suiticientlv strong,light, easily applied and removed, and furnishes a great convenience tothe letter-carrier by enabling him to take a larger load than hithertopossible in a single bag and without interfering with the obtaining ofletters from the interior of the bag.

What I claim as my invention, is-

1. A letter-bag attachment, comprising a hanger provided with hooks "fordetachably connecting the same to a bag, and means supported by saidhanger for suspending packages therefrom.

2. A letter-bag attachment, comprising a hanger having hooked ends whichpass over the top of the bag-wall and engage in holes provided in thelatter, and packaqeeng'ag inc; hooks connected to said he 3. Aletter-bag attachment, comprising a Signed at Seattle, Wash, this 2ndday of hanger engageable with a mail-hag, pack- January, 1914.age-supporting hooks suspended by said hanger, supplementarypackage-supporting ADONIRAM SMITH 5 hooks connected to the bag, andconnections Witnesses:

between the last named hooks and the PIERRE BARNES, hanger. W. SINKSFERGUSON.

Gopiu of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C."

